/*
 * Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166 Expert Group and released to the
 * public domain, as explained at http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
 */
package alluxio.concurrent.jsr;

/**
 * A {@link ForkJoinTask} with a completion action performed when triggered and there are no
 * remaining pending actions. CountedCompleters are in general more robust in the presence of
 * subtask stalls and blockage than are other forms of ForkJoinTasks, but are less intuitive to
 * program. Uses of CountedCompleter are similar to those of other completion based components (such
 * as {@link java.nio.channels.CompletionHandler}) except that multiple <em>pending</em> completions
 * may be necessary to trigger the completion action {@link #onCompletion(CountedCompleter)}, not
 * just one. Unless initialized otherwise, the {@linkplain #getPendingCount pending count} starts at
 * zero, but may be (atomically) changed using methods {@link #setPendingCount},
 * {@link #addToPendingCount}, and {@link #compareAndSetPendingCount}. Upon invocation of
 * {@link #tryComplete}, if the pending action count is nonzero, it is decremented; otherwise, the
 * completion action is performed, and if this completer itself has a completer, the process is
 * continued with its completer. As is the case with related synchronization components such as
 * {@link java.util.concurrent.Phaser} and {@link java.util.concurrent.Semaphore Semaphore}, these
 * methods affect only internal counts; they do not establish any further internal bookkeeping. In
 * particular, the identities of pending tasks are not maintained. As illustrated below, you can
 * create subclasses that do record some or all pending tasks or their results when needed. As
 * illustrated below, utility methods supporting customization of completion traversals are also
 * provided. However, because CountedCompleters provide only basic synchronization mechanisms, it
 * may be useful to create further abstract subclasses that maintain linkages, fields, and
 * additional support methods appropriate for a set of related usages.
 *
 * <p>
 * A concrete CountedCompleter class must define method {@link #compute}, that should in most cases
 * (as illustrated below), invoke {@code tryComplete()} once before returning. The class may also
 * optionally override method {@link #onCompletion(CountedCompleter)} to perform an action upon
 * normal completion, and method {@link #onExceptionalCompletion(Throwable, CountedCompleter)} to
 * perform an action upon any exception.
 *
 * <p>
 * CountedCompleters most often do not bear results, in which case they are normally declared as
 * {@code CountedCompleter<Void>}, and will always return {@code null} as a result value. In other
 * cases, you should override method {@link #getRawResult} to provide a result from
 * {@code join(), invoke()}, and related methods. In general, this method should return the value of
 * a field (or a function of one or more fields) of the CountedCompleter object that holds the
 * result upon completion. Method {@link #setRawResult} by default plays no role in
 * CountedCompleters. It is possible, but rarely applicable, to override this method to maintain
 * other objects or fields holding result data.
 *
 * <p>
 * A CountedCompleter that does not itself have a completer (i.e., one for which
 * {@link #getCompleter} returns {@code null}) can be used as a regular ForkJoinTask with this added
 * functionality. However, any completer that in turn has another completer serves only as an
 * internal helper for other computations, so its own task status (as reported in methods such as
 * {@link ForkJoinTask#isDone}) is arbitrary; this status changes only upon explicit invocations of
 * {@link #complete}, {@link ForkJoinTask#cancel},
 * {@link ForkJoinTask#completeExceptionally(Throwable)} or upon exceptional completion of method
 * {@code compute}. Upon any exceptional completion, the exception may be relayed to a task's
 * completer (and its completer, and so on), if one exists and it has not otherwise already
 * completed. Similarly, cancelling an internal CountedCompleter has only a local effect on that
 * completer, so is not often useful.
 *
 * <p>
 * <b>Sample Usages.</b>
 *
 * <p>
 * <b>Parallel recursive decomposition.</b> CountedCompleters may be arranged in trees similar to
 * those often used with {@link java.util.concurrent.RecursiveAction}s, although the constructions
 * involved in setting them up typically vary. Here, the completer of each task is its parent in the
 * computation tree. Even though they entail a bit more bookkeeping, CountedCompleters may be better
 * choices when applying a possibly time-consuming operation (that cannot be further subdivided) to
 * each element of an array or collection; especially when the operation takes a significantly
 * different amount of time to complete for some elements than others, either because of intrinsic
 * variation (for example I/O) or auxiliary effects such as garbage collection. Because
 * CountedCompleters provide their own continuations, other tasks need not block waiting to perform
 * them.
 *
 * <p>
 * For example, here is an initial version of a utility method that uses divide-by-two recursive
 * decomposition to divide work into single pieces (leaf tasks). Even when work is split into
 * individual calls, tree-based techniques are usually preferable to directly forking leaf tasks,
 * because they reduce inter-thread communication and improve load balancing. In the recursive case,
 * the second of each pair of subtasks to finish triggers completion of their parent (because no
 * result combination is performed, the default no-op implementation of method {@code onCompletion}
 * is not overridden). The utility method sets up the root task and invokes it (here, implicitly
 * using the {@link ForkJoinPool#commonPool()}). It is straightforward and reliable (but not
 * optimal) to always set the pending count to the number of child tasks and call {@code
 * tryComplete()} immediately before returning.
 *
 * <pre>
 *  {@code
 * public static <E> void forEach(E[] array, Consumer<E> action) {
 *   class Task extends CountedCompleter<Void> {
 *     final int lo, hi;
 *     Task(Task parent, int lo, int hi) {
 *       super(parent); this.lo = lo; this.hi = hi;
 *     }
 *
 *     public void compute() {
 *       if (hi - lo >= 2) {
 *         int mid = (lo + hi) >>> 1;
 *         // must set pending count before fork
 *         setPendingCount(2);
 *         new Task(this, mid, hi).fork(); // right child
 *         new Task(this, lo, mid).fork(); // left child
 *       }
 *       else if (hi > lo)
 *         action.accept(array[lo]);
 *       tryComplete();
 *     }
 *   }
 *   new Task(null, 0, array.length).invoke();
 * }}
 * </pre>
 *
 * This design can be improved by noticing that in the recursive case, the task has nothing to do
 * after forking its right task, so can directly invoke its left task before returning. (This is an
 * analog of tail recursion removal.) Also, when the last action in a task is to fork or invoke a
 * subtask (a "tail call"), the call to {@code
 * tryComplete()} can be optimized away, at the cost of making the pending count look "off by one".
 *
 * <pre>
 *  {@code
 *   public void compute() {
 *     if (hi - lo >= 2) {
 *       int mid = (lo + hi) >>> 1;
 *       setPendingCount(1); // looks off by one, but correct!
 *       new Task(this, mid, hi).fork(); // right child
 *       new Task(this, lo, mid).compute(); // direct invoke
 *     } else {
 *       if (hi > lo)
 *         action.accept(array[lo]);
 *       tryComplete();
 *     }
 *   }}
 * </pre>
 *
 * As a further optimization, notice that the left task need not even exist. Instead of creating a
 * new one, we can continue using the original task, and add a pending count for each fork.
 * Additionally, because no task in this tree implements an {@link #onCompletion(CountedCompleter)}
 * method, {@code tryComplete} can be replaced with {@link #propagateCompletion}.
 *
 * <pre>
 *  {@code
 *   public void compute() {
 *     int n = hi - lo;
 *     for (; n >= 2; n /= 2) {
 *       addToPendingCount(1);
 *       new Task(this, lo + n/2, lo + n).fork();
 *     }
 *     if (n > 0)
 *       action.accept(array[lo]);
 *     propagateCompletion();
 *   }}
 * </pre>
 *
 * When pending counts can be precomputed, they can be established in the constructor:
 *
 * <pre>
 *  {@code
 * public static <E> void forEach(E[] array, Consumer<E> action) {
 *   class Task extends CountedCompleter<Void> {
 *     final int lo, hi;
 *     Task(Task parent, int lo, int hi) {
 *       super(parent, 31 - Integer.numberOfLeadingZeros(hi - lo));
 *       this.lo = lo; this.hi = hi;
 *     }
 *
 *     public void compute() {
 *       for (int n = hi - lo; n >= 2; n /= 2)
 *         new Task(this, lo + n/2, lo + n).fork();
 *       action.accept(array[lo]);
 *       propagateCompletion();
 *     }
 *   }
 *   if (array.length > 0)
 *     new Task(null, 0, array.length).invoke();
 * }}
 * </pre>
 *
 * Additional optimizations of such classes might entail specializing classes for leaf steps,
 * subdividing by say, four, instead of two per iteration, and using an adaptive threshold instead
 * of always subdividing down to single elements.
 *
 * <p>
 * <b>Searching.</b> A tree of CountedCompleters can search for a value or property in different
 * parts of a data structure, and report a result in an
 * {@link java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference AtomicReference} as soon as one is found. The
 * others can poll the result to avoid unnecessary work. (You could additionally {@linkplain #cancel
 * cancel} other tasks, but it is usually simpler and more efficient to just let them notice that
 * the result is set and if so skip further processing.) Illustrating again with an array using full
 * partitioning (again, in practice, leaf tasks will almost always process more than one element):
 *
 * <pre>
 *  {@code
 * class Searcher<E> extends CountedCompleter<E> {
 *   final E[] array; final AtomicReference<E> result; final int lo, hi;
 *   Searcher(CountedCompleter<?> p, E[] array, AtomicReference<E> result, int lo, int hi) {
 *     super(p);
 *     this.array = array; this.result = result; this.lo = lo; this.hi = hi;
 *   }
 *   public E getRawResult() { return result.get(); }
 *   public void compute() { // similar to ForEach version 3
 *     int l = lo,  h = hi;
 *     while (result.get() == null && h >= l) {
 *       if (h - l >= 2) {
 *         int mid = (l + h) >>> 1;
 *         addToPendingCount(1);
 *         new Searcher(this, array, result, mid, h).fork();
 *         h = mid;
 *       }
 *       else {
 *         E x = array[l];
 *         if (matches(x) && result.compareAndSet(null, x))
 *           quietlyCompleteRoot(); // root task is now joinable
 *         break;
 *       }
 *     }
 *     tryComplete(); // normally complete whether or not found
 *   }
 *   boolean matches(E e) { ... } // return true if found
 *
 *   public static <E> E search(E[] array) {
 *       return new Searcher<E>(null, array, new AtomicReference<E>(), 0, array.length).invoke();
 *   }
 * }}
 * </pre>
 *
 * In this example, as well as others in which tasks have no other effects except to
 * {@code compareAndSet} a common result, the trailing unconditional invocation of
 * {@code tryComplete} could be made conditional ({@code if (result.get() == null) tryComplete();})
 * because no further bookkeeping is required to manage completions once the root task completes.
 *
 * <p>
 * <b>Recording subtasks.</b> CountedCompleter tasks that combine results of multiple subtasks
 * usually need to access these results in method {@link #onCompletion(CountedCompleter)}. As
 * illustrated in the following class (that performs a simplified form of map-reduce where mappings
 * and reductions are all of type {@code E}), one way to do this in divide and conquer designs is to
 * have each subtask record its sibling, so that it can be accessed in method {@code onCompletion}.
 * This technique applies to reductions in which the order of combining left and right results does
 * not matter; ordered reductions require explicit left/right designations. Variants of other
 * streamlinings seen in the above examples may also apply.
 *
 * <pre>
 *  {@code
 * class MyMapper<E> { E apply(E v) {  ...  } }
 * class MyReducer<E> { E apply(E x, E y) {  ...  } }
 * class MapReducer<E> extends CountedCompleter<E> {
 *   final E[] array; final MyMapper<E> mapper;
 *   final MyReducer<E> reducer; final int lo, hi;
 *   MapReducer<E> sibling;
 *   E result;
 *   MapReducer(CountedCompleter<?> p, E[] array, MyMapper<E> mapper,
 *              MyReducer<E> reducer, int lo, int hi) {
 *     super(p);
 *     this.array = array; this.mapper = mapper;
 *     this.reducer = reducer; this.lo = lo; this.hi = hi;
 *   }
 *   public void compute() {
 *     if (hi - lo >= 2) {
 *       int mid = (lo + hi) >>> 1;
 *       MapReducer<E> left = new MapReducer(this, array, mapper, reducer, lo, mid);
 *       MapReducer<E> right = new MapReducer(this, array, mapper, reducer, mid, hi);
 *       left.sibling = right;
 *       right.sibling = left;
 *       setPendingCount(1); // only right is pending
 *       right.fork();
 *       left.compute();     // directly execute left
 *     }
 *     else {
 *       if (hi > lo)
 *           result = mapper.apply(array[lo]);
 *       tryComplete();
 *     }
 *   }
 *   public void onCompletion(CountedCompleter<?> caller) {
 *     if (caller != this) {
 *       MapReducer<E> child = (MapReducer<E>)caller;
 *       MapReducer<E> sib = child.sibling;
 *       if (sib == null || sib.result == null)
 *         result = child.result;
 *       else
 *         result = reducer.apply(child.result, sib.result);
 *     }
 *   }
 *   public E getRawResult() { return result; }
 *
 *   public static <E> E mapReduce(E[] array, MyMapper<E> mapper, MyReducer<E> reducer) {
 *     return new MapReducer<E>(null, array, mapper, reducer,
 *                              0, array.length).invoke();
 *   }
 * }}
 * </pre>
 *
 * Here, method {@code onCompletion} takes a form common to many completion designs that combine
 * results. This callback-style method is triggered once per task, in either of the two different
 * contexts in which the pending count is, or becomes, zero: (1) by a task itself, if its pending
 * count is zero upon invocation of {@code
 * tryComplete}, or (2) by any of its subtasks when they complete and decrement the pending count to
 * zero. The {@code caller} argument distinguishes cases. Most often, when the caller is
 * {@code this}, no action is necessary. Otherwise the caller argument can be used (usually via a
 * cast) to supply a value (and/or links to other values) to be combined. Assuming proper use of
 * pending counts, the actions inside {@code onCompletion} occur (once) upon completion of a task
 * and its subtasks. No additional synchronization is required within this method to ensure thread
 * safety of accesses to fields of this task or other completed tasks.
 *
 * <p>
 * <b>Completion Traversals</b>. If using {@code onCompletion} to process completions is
 * inapplicable or inconvenient, you can use methods {@link #firstComplete} and
 * {@link #nextComplete} to create custom traversals. For example, to define a MapReducer that only
 * splits out right-hand tasks in the form of the third ForEach example, the completions must
 * cooperatively reduce along unexhausted subtask links, which can be done as follows:
 *
 * <pre>
 * {
 *   &#64;code
 *   class MapReducer<E> extends CountedCompleter<E> { // version 2
 *     final E[] array;
 *     final MyMapper<E> mapper;
 *     final MyReducer<E> reducer;
 *     final int lo, hi;
 *     MapReducer<E> forks, next; // record subtask forks in list
 *     E result;
 * 
 *     MapReducer(CountedCompleter<?> p, E[] array, MyMapper<E> mapper, MyReducer<E> reducer,
 *         int lo, int hi, MapReducer<E> next) {
 *       super(p);
 *       this.array = array;
 *       this.mapper = mapper;
 *       this.reducer = reducer;
 *       this.lo = lo;
 *       this.hi = hi;
 *       this.next = next;
 *     }
 * 
 *     public void compute() {
 *       int l = lo, h = hi;
 *       while (h - l >= 2) {
 *         int mid = (l + h) >>> 1;
 *         addToPendingCount(1);
 *         (forks = new MapReducer(this, array, mapper, reducer, mid, h, forks)).fork();
 *         h = mid;
 *       }
 *       if (h > l)
 *         result = mapper.apply(array[l]);
 *       // process completions by reducing along and advancing subtask links
 *       for (CountedCompleter<?> c = firstComplete(); c != null; c = c.nextComplete()) {
 *         for (MapReducer t = (MapReducer) c, s = t.forks; s != null; s = t.forks = s.next)
 *           t.result = reducer.apply(t.result, s.result);
 *       }
 *     }
 * 
 *     public E getRawResult() {
 *       return result;
 *     }
 *
 *     public static <E> E mapReduce(E[] array, MyMapper<E> mapper, MyReducer<E> reducer) {
 *       return new MapReducer<E>(null, array, mapper, reducer, 0, array.length, null).invoke();
 *     }
 *   }
 * }
 * </pre>
 *
 * <p>
 * <b>Triggers.</b> Some CountedCompleters are themselves never forked, but instead serve as bits of
 * plumbing in other designs; including those in which the completion of one or more async tasks
 * triggers another async task. For example:
 *
 * <pre>
 *  {@code
 * class HeaderBuilder extends CountedCompleter<...> { ... }
 * class BodyBuilder extends CountedCompleter<...> { ... }
 * class PacketSender extends CountedCompleter<...> {
 *   PacketSender(...) { super(null, 1); ... } // trigger on second completion
 *   public void compute() { } // never called
 *   public void onCompletion(CountedCompleter<?> caller) { sendPacket(); }
 * }
 * // sample use:
 * PacketSender p = new PacketSender();
 * new HeaderBuilder(p, ...).fork();
 * new BodyBuilder(p, ...).fork();}
 * </pre>
 *
 * @since 1.8
 * @author Doug Lea
 */
public abstract class CountedCompleter<T> extends ForkJoinTask<T> {
  // CVS rev. 1.64

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 5232453752276485070L;
  // Unsafe mechanics
  private static final sun.misc.Unsafe U = UnsafeAccess.unsafe;
  private static final long PENDING;

  static {
    try {
      PENDING = U.objectFieldOffset(CountedCompleter.class.getDeclaredField("pending"));
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(e);
    }
  }

  /** This task's completer, or null if none */
  final CountedCompleter<?> completer;
  /** The number of pending tasks until completion */
  volatile int pending;

  /**
   * Creates a new CountedCompleter with the given completer and initial pending count.
   *
   * @param completer this task's completer, or {@code null} if none
   * @param initialPendingCount the initial pending count
   */
  protected CountedCompleter(CountedCompleter<?> completer, int initialPendingCount) {
    this.completer = completer;
    this.pending = initialPendingCount;
  }

  /**
   * Creates a new CountedCompleter with the given completer and an initial pending count of zero.
   *
   * @param completer this task's completer, or {@code null} if none
   */
  protected CountedCompleter(CountedCompleter<?> completer) {
    this.completer = completer;
  }

  /**
   * Creates a new CountedCompleter with no completer and an initial pending count of zero.
   */
  protected CountedCompleter() {
    this.completer = null;
  }

  /**
   * The main computation performed by this task.
   */
  public abstract void compute();

  /**
   * Performs an action when method {@link #tryComplete} is invoked and the pending count is zero,
   * or when the unconditional method {@link #complete} is invoked. By default, this method does
   * nothing. You can distinguish cases by checking the identity of the given caller argument. If
   * not equal to {@code
   * this}, then it is typically a subtask that may contain results (and/or links to other results)
   * to combine.
   *
   * @param caller the task invoking this method (which may be this task itself)
   */
  public void onCompletion(CountedCompleter<?> caller) {}

  /**
   * Performs an action when method {@link #completeExceptionally(Throwable)} is invoked or method
   * {@link #compute} throws an exception, and this task has not already otherwise completed
   * normally. On entry to this method, this task {@link ForkJoinTask#isCompletedAbnormally}. The
   * return value of this method controls further propagation: If {@code true} and this task has a
   * completer that has not completed, then that completer is also completed exceptionally, with the
   * same exception as this completer. The default implementation of this method does nothing except
   * return {@code true}.
   *
   * @param ex the exception
   * @param caller the task invoking this method (which may be this task itself)
   * @return {@code true} if this exception should be propagated to this task's completer, if one
   *         exists
   */
  public boolean onExceptionalCompletion(Throwable ex, CountedCompleter<?> caller) {
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the completer established in this task's constructor, or {@code null} if none.
   *
   * @return the completer
   */
  public final CountedCompleter<?> getCompleter() {
    return completer;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the current pending count.
   *
   * @return the current pending count
   */
  public final int getPendingCount() {
    return pending;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the pending count to the given value.
   *
   * @param count the count
   */
  public final void setPendingCount(int count) {
    pending = count;
  }

  /**
   * Adds (atomically) the given value to the pending count.
   *
   * @param delta the value to add
   */
  public final void addToPendingCount(int delta) {
    int c;
    do {
    } while (!U.compareAndSwapInt(this, PENDING, c = pending, c + delta));
  }

  /**
   * Sets (atomically) the pending count to the given count only if it currently holds the given
   * expected value.
   *
   * @param expected the expected value
   * @param count the new value
   * @return {@code true} if successful
   */
  public final boolean compareAndSetPendingCount(int expected, int count) {
    return U.compareAndSwapInt(this, PENDING, expected, count);
  }

  /**
   * If the pending count is nonzero, (atomically) decrements it.
   *
   * @return the initial (undecremented) pending count holding on entry to this method
   */
  public final int decrementPendingCountUnlessZero() {
    int c;
    do {
    } while ((c = pending) != 0 && !U.compareAndSwapInt(this, PENDING, c, c - 1));
    return c;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the root of the current computation; i.e., this task if it has no completer, else its
   * completer's root.
   *
   * @return the root of the current computation
   */
  public final CountedCompleter<?> getRoot() {
    CountedCompleter<?> a = this, p;
    while ((p = a.completer) != null)
      a = p;
    return a;
  }

  /**
   * If the pending count is nonzero, decrements the count; otherwise invokes
   * {@link #onCompletion(CountedCompleter)} and then similarly tries to complete this task's
   * completer, if one exists, else marks this task as complete.
   */
  public final void tryComplete() {
    CountedCompleter<?> a = this, s = a;
    for (int c;;) {
      if ((c = a.pending) == 0) {
        a.onCompletion(s);
        if ((a = (s = a).completer) == null) {
          s.quietlyComplete();
          return;
        }
      } else if (U.compareAndSwapInt(a, PENDING, c, c - 1))
        return;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Equivalent to {@link #tryComplete} but does not invoke {@link #onCompletion(CountedCompleter)}
   * along the completion path: If the pending count is nonzero, decrements the count; otherwise,
   * similarly tries to complete this task's completer, if one exists, else marks this task as
   * complete. This method may be useful in cases where {@code onCompletion} should not, or need
   * not, be invoked for each completer in a computation.
   */
  public final void propagateCompletion() {
    CountedCompleter<?> a = this, s;
    for (int c;;) {
      if ((c = a.pending) == 0) {
        if ((a = (s = a).completer) == null) {
          s.quietlyComplete();
          return;
        }
      } else if (U.compareAndSwapInt(a, PENDING, c, c - 1))
        return;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Regardless of pending count, invokes {@link #onCompletion(CountedCompleter)}, marks this task
   * as complete and further triggers {@link #tryComplete} on this task's completer, if one exists.
   * The given rawResult is used as an argument to {@link #setRawResult} before invoking
   * {@link #onCompletion(CountedCompleter)} or marking this task as complete; its value is
   * meaningful only for classes overriding {@code setRawResult}. This method does not modify the
   * pending count.
   *
   * <p>
   * This method may be useful when forcing completion as soon as any one (versus all) of several
   * subtask results are obtained. However, in the common (and recommended) case in which {@code
   * setRawResult} is not overridden, this effect can be obtained more simply using
   * {@link #quietlyCompleteRoot()}.
   *
   * @param rawResult the raw result
   */
  public void complete(T rawResult) {
    CountedCompleter<?> p;
    setRawResult(rawResult);
    onCompletion(this);
    quietlyComplete();
    if ((p = completer) != null)
      p.tryComplete();
  }

  /**
   * If this task's pending count is zero, returns this task; otherwise decrements its pending count
   * and returns {@code
   * null}. This method is designed to be used with {@link #nextComplete} in completion traversal
   * loops.
   *
   * @return this task, if pending count was zero, else {@code null}
   */
  public final CountedCompleter<?> firstComplete() {
    for (int c;;) {
      if ((c = pending) == 0)
        return this;
      else if (U.compareAndSwapInt(this, PENDING, c, c - 1))
        return null;
    }
  }

  /**
   * If this task does not have a completer, invokes {@link ForkJoinTask#quietlyComplete} and
   * returns {@code null}. Or, if the completer's pending count is non-zero, decrements that pending
   * count and returns {@code null}. Otherwise, returns the completer. This method can be used as
   * part of a completion traversal loop for homogeneous task hierarchies:
   *
   * <pre>
   *  {@code
   * for (CountedCompleter<?> c = firstComplete();
   *      c != null;
   *      c = c.nextComplete()) {
   *   // ... process c ...
   * }}
   * </pre>
   *
   * @return the completer, or {@code null} if none
   */
  public final CountedCompleter<?> nextComplete() {
    CountedCompleter<?> p;
    if ((p = completer) != null)
      return p.firstComplete();
    else {
      quietlyComplete();
      return null;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Equivalent to {@code getRoot().quietlyComplete()}.
   */
  public final void quietlyCompleteRoot() {
    for (CountedCompleter<?> a = this, p;;) {
      if ((p = a.completer) == null) {
        a.quietlyComplete();
        return;
      }
      a = p;
    }
  }

  /**
   * If this task has not completed, attempts to process at most the given number of other
   * unprocessed tasks for which this task is on the completion path, if any are known to exist.
   *
   * @param maxTasks the maximum number of tasks to process. If less than or equal to zero, then no
   *        tasks are processed.
   */
  public final void helpComplete(int maxTasks) {
    Thread t;
    ForkJoinWorkerThread wt;
    if (maxTasks > 0 && status >= 0) {
      if ((t = Thread.currentThread()) instanceof ForkJoinWorkerThread)
        (wt = (ForkJoinWorkerThread) t).pool.helpComplete(wt.workQueue, this, maxTasks);
      else
        ForkJoinPool.common.externalHelpComplete(this, maxTasks);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Supports ForkJoinTask exception propagation.
   */
  void internalPropagateException(Throwable ex) {
    CountedCompleter<?> a = this, s = a;
    while (a.onExceptionalCompletion(ex, s) && (a = (s = a).completer) != null && a.status >= 0
        && a.recordExceptionalCompletion(ex) == EXCEPTIONAL);
  }

  /**
   * Implements execution conventions for CountedCompleters.
   */
  protected final boolean exec() {
    compute();
    return false;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the result of the computation. By default, returns {@code null}, which is appropriate
   * for {@code Void} actions, but in other cases should be overridden, almost always to return a
   * field or function of a field that holds the result upon completion.
   *
   * @return the result of the computation
   */
  public T getRawResult() {
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * A method that result-bearing CountedCompleters may optionally use to help maintain result data.
   * By default, does nothing. Overrides are not recommended. However, if this method is overridden
   * to update existing objects or fields, then it must in general be defined to be thread-safe.
   */
  protected void setRawResult(T t) {}
}
